Marcia K. Hoebreckx CYT
Certified in yoga in the spring of 2008 (Feel Your Best, Mequon, WI), I have maintained a personal practice since 1976, having first learned beginning postures through a friend and a book on the beach in Baja, California. That first and most lovely yoga experience continues to grow.
My professional life before being certified as a yoga instructor included quite diverse work environments: promoting and administering a National Endowment for the Arts Summer Institute, serving as public relations director and project coordinator for the engineering dean’s office at the University of Colorado at Boulder, as well as recently retiring as executive director for Midsummer’s Music Festival, a chamber music series produced in Door County.
Having lived in Boulder, Colorado, for more than 30 years I was fortunate enough to be exposed to many styles of yoga, but preferred Ashtanga and Iyengar for my own practice. While in Boulder I attended Richard Freeman’s studio, “The Yoga Workshop” and continue to do so when I go back regularly to visit. I teach an eclectic form that incorporates both Ashtanga and Iyengar, but with an emphasis on Ashtanga, which has a focus on breath work that I feel is particularly important. I very much enjoy teaching intermediate students, however, I get particular pleasure out of bringing new students to yoga by providing basic knowledge and skills to build upon and grow their own practice.
During the summer of 2008 I operated a small private studio in Ellison Bay, Wisconsin, where I taught six classes a week and conducted personal and individualized sessions. In October of 2008 I taught a two-day seminar, “Yoga You Can Take Home With You,” developed for The Clearing, an adult folk school that is also located in Ellison Bay. Recently I have developed a 3-hour workshop introducing Ashtanga Vinyasa to beginning students, to be presented on Washington Island in August 2009. In addition, I established a standing class at the North Shore Presbyterian Church in June of last year, which continues to this day and I have a standing class in Door County that will continue through October 2009. The number of clients requesting personalized yoga sessions continues to grow.
My other interests include piano study, books, vegetable gardens, biking, kayaking on the Great Lakes, and high alpine hiking in the Colorado Rockies whenever I can get there. And of course, yoga.
